tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37025305.post4254368963619328679..comments2024-01-24T05:26:00.039-08:00Comments on Whitterer on Autism: No beating around the bushMaddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05828186178060722812noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37025305.post-22855368849513216872007-05-28T20:37:00.000-07:002007-05-28T20:37:00.000-07:00Blessedly these guys are resiliant and perceptive....Blessedly these guys are resiliant and perceptive. You would be amazed at what they retain when you don't think anything is getting through.<BR/><BR/>I know that our son never seemed to be listening to any of those messages when we were trying to warn him off of strangers. By the grace of God and his being pretty level headed he never got into a situation that was unsafe. <BR/><BR/>He is much more protective of his younger sister though, (as an almost adult, she being ten,) so I suppose those messages got through to him.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01239198273681288577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37025305.post-6256048499042274562007-05-28T19:44:00.000-07:002007-05-28T19:44:00.000-07:00Hilarious. I've never had that exact conversation,...Hilarious. I've never had that exact conversation, but I've had many similar ones.<BR/><BR/>Our guy, at the tender age of four [translation= still functionally non-verbal] wandered away from his daycare and walked 10 blocks through Brooklyn, crossing two four-lane streets, before arriving home where, being too short to reach the doorbell, he sat on the stoop until a passerby, who had probably made a futile attempt to extract information from him, was good enough to call the police.VABhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06652301858477760996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37025305.post-82444509327961518542007-05-28T19:42:00.000-07:002007-05-28T19:42:00.000-07:00I'm convinced that my 6-year-old would walk off wi...I'm convinced that my 6-year-old would walk off with anyone who offered him sweets. And even without the complication of autism, it's difficult to know what to say to them because they are both very friendly children who assume that everyone is their friend. And in a lot of ways I don't want to disabuse them of this notion.<BR/><BR/>Good luck getting through with your message!Stomper Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04038937073264645029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37025305.post-84352914859600031222007-05-28T09:43:00.000-07:002007-05-28T09:43:00.000-07:00Oh so scary! Little Frog is still so young and un...Oh so scary! Little Frog is still so young and unpredictable that he is really never out of some sort of supervisor's sight. The non-verbal issue also makes me anxious - he really can't tell me what is going on - I hope that his new AAC voice output device will eliminate this worry soon. I'm sure if someone he didn't know tried to get too close to him in a way that made him feel uncomfortable he would scream, bite, pinch and run - but since this is not unusual behavior for him, it is a little like the boy who cried wolf and I wonder how long it would be before someone came to his aid. It is another reason the home schooling option is becoming so appealing to us.Frogs' momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05725200922003178884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37025305.post-29872528299934499862007-05-28T07:02:00.000-07:002007-05-28T07:02:00.000-07:00My youngest would never have gone near him. The el...My youngest would never have gone near him. The eldest would have struck up a conversation and looked at the car.<BR/><BR/>Tough one.<BR/><BR/>I was followed home from school in h/s.<BR/><BR/>Fingers crossed it never becomes an issue.<BR/><BR/>S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37025305.post-40600644618880595722007-05-28T06:04:00.000-07:002007-05-28T06:04:00.000-07:00It scares me that Patrick, at this point, cannot e...It scares me that Patrick, at this point, cannot even distiguish between a stranger and a friend. I mean, he might ask "who's that" if we run into someone he's never met, but he does not grasp the concept that not all people are "friends".<BR/><BR/>The unpredictability is hard too. One day he might climb into a car with a perfect stranger, the next day he might run out into traffic rather than be reigned in by anybody. It's enough to give me chest pains.mumkeepingsanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359192887444530869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37025305.post-56029070352941254872007-05-27T23:45:00.000-07:002007-05-27T23:45:00.000-07:00Stranger danger is something very important to me ...Stranger danger is something very important to me because when I was six years old a man took me and my cousin by the hand outside my grandmothers house and walked us away. He began to try all the car handles to see if he could find one open. I pretended a nearby house was mine and pulled away from him with my cousin holding my hand. We went into a house garden and shut the gate and he went away. <BR/>I don't want to freak my girls out by making them overly anxious about stranger danger but I always tell them to be aware of any situation in which they find themselves not feeling SAFE. When that UNSAFE feeling comes, it's a signal that what they're doing is not right for <BR/>them.Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15302314943484045547noreply@blogger.com